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Berite and the boys get pay rise!!

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    #32
    Orange69
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    Moonbaby wrote: »
    Well if you don't like it....why don't you just kill yourselves.

    Didnt "Bertie" say something along those lines to people who were "talking down" the economy :rolleyes:


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    #33
    Colonel Sanders
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    orestes wrote: »
    Revolution anybody?

    I've been saying this for a long time.....


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    #34
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Ahhh That's better you have to love working in a small town where it obly takes two minutes to get home. :D
    One of Carlows finest elected TD s commented on the radio that he knew 2 builders that earned more than him .(100 k)They work for a living what does he do .The arrogance .
    Lol. And he could only find two.
    Actually, it's an interesting point that many posters have the reaction to just go have a joint after hearing this. Are Irish people really *that* apathetic? If so, it kinda explains why he's still in power doesn't it?
    I'm not being apathic but what more can I do on a thursday evening other than have a spliff.

    I was thinking of running for local elections but I'd say no one would vote for me. we should have more different people going up for elections.


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    #35
    coffee_cake
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    Congratualtions on having a tribunal, bertie, and congratualtions on the state of the healthcare system with a ton of docs and nurses getting fired everywhere. Have a pay rise.


    :mad:


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    #36
    HelterSkelter
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    Stereonick wrote: »
    Wasn't Steve Staunton getting €400,000? That kind of puts it in perspective. And Gerry Ryan must be getting more
    Gordon Brown gets €268k


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    #37
    HelterSkelter
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    Bertie has received more than 22 pay increases since 1997 when his salary was €133,000!!! Unbelieveable!!!

    This article is from 2005...
    http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/.../story6527.asp
    ...The Taoiseach's salary has increased from €133,000 in 1997 to just under €250,000 today – a rise of almost 88 per cent. In the same period, the average industrial wage has risen from €19,300 to just under €30,000, an increase of about 53 per cent.


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    #38
    leninbenjamin
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    layke wrote: »
    Didn't FF warn us that our economy is on the way down? Yet they get pay rises?

    GG FF

    not only that, but the ESRI has recommended that they increase taxes to fund this round of completely undeserved public pay rises...

    i'm really beginning to think that those in public service are nothing more than leeches on the economy. absolutely no way these rises can be justified.


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    #39
    ScumLord
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    Didn't Eamon de Valera almost go bankrupt as the president of Ireland because he wouldn't take any pay raises. They don't make em like that anymore.


    Lets dig him up.


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    #40
    Mr.Micro
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    I thought Bertie relied on handouts and pals .What does he need a salary for?


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    #41
    gurramok
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    Bertie now earns more than Bush himself!
    http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/09/asia/singbox.php

    Bertie $443,000 (at todays exchange rate)
    Bush $440,000
    Brown $370,000
    Shinzo Abe $360,000
    Merkel $350,000


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    #42
    2Scoops
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    gurramok wrote: »
    is he worth it though?

    I think this answers your question:


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    #43
    Mr.Micro
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    Congratualtions on having a tribunal, bertie, and congratualtions on the state of the healthcare system with a ton of docs and nurses getting fired everywhere. Have a pay rise.


    Bertie thinks he is worth it .He has to put a bit away for the pension fund,the man of the people that he is .


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    #44
    delta_bravo
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    Didn't Eamon de Valera almost go bankrupt as the president of Ireland because he wouldn't take any pay raises. They don't make em like that anymore.


    Lets dig him up.

    you are joking arent you? He was a shady character. He definitely wasnt short on money


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    #45
    curiousxxx1
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    Another bloody pay rise!! WTF and €38,000... wow how many people earn that a year :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
    Jeez mehn, like i thought the Goverment coffers had over spent by billions this year how can they afford to take a pay rise while we pay more tax next year... Really unbelievable


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    #46
    coffee_cake
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    Isn't there something we can do about this?


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    #47
    buckie
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    Berties the highest payed Prime minister in the WORLD!
    Thank **** it's nearly five, I need a spliff before I kill someone

    while the poor tax payer will be told to tighten there belt come next month.
    i suppose at least now he has a bank account to lodge it in

    can he afford now to pay back some of the cash that was leant to him

    Brian cowen and mary harney defo need the extra cash the 2 of them fading away in front of us all
    Fat F**kers the lot of them


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    #48
    Outer Bongolia
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    HelterSkelter wrote: »
    Gordon Brown gets €268k

    Still though... Gerry Ryan! €600,000!!

    This Man

    http://blogorrah.com/blogimages/200cocktail.jpg


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    #49
    Ruu_Old
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    Isn't there something we can do about this?

    Shake our fists in his general direction and rant about him on the internet with lots of angry smiley faces, that'll show him. :mad::mad::mad:


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    #50
    coffee_cake
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    Ruu wrote: »
    Shake our fists in his general direction and rant about him on the internet with lots of angry smiley faces, that'll show him. :mad::mad::mad:
    Seems like that's all anyone's going to do. Then in 2 months' time, noone's going to say a word beyond "ah sure you know bertie and arent taxes always too high".


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    #51
    gurramok
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    Isn't there something we can do about this?

    Well, it was kindly timed post election so all those that voted him back in must feel a little bit cheated with economic downturn on the horizon.

    Only Bertie can reject it, he could take a leaf out of the Japanese prime minster but the gubberment don't take responisibity here!

    'Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took a 30 percent pay cut when he came to office in September 2006 and lowered other top officials' pay by 10 percent.'
    http://rana.typepad.com/weblog/2007/03/the_internation.html


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    #52
    2Scoops
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    Isn't there something we can do about this?

    Collectively, we had an opportunity to do something about this last summer. Wait a few years and we'll get another.


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    #53
    biko
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    March in the streets


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    #54
    ScumLord
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    We should start a petition!

    Bertie and ministers should not only refuse the raise but take, even a 5% pay cut as a show of good faith to the Irish public.


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    #55
    _Kaiser_
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    2Scoops wrote: »
    Collectively, we had an opportunity to do something about this last summer. Wait a few years and we'll get another.
    Be realistic.. would "the alternative" have been any different? Politics in Ireland is about getting in, and STAYING in so as to feather your own nest and look after your family and mates with equally cushy jobs. Ethics isn't in most of their vocabularies.


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    #56
    2Scoops
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    Kaiser2000 wrote: »
    Be realistic.. would "the alternative" have been any different? Politics in Ireland is about getting in, and STAYING in so as to feather your own nest and look after your family and mates with equally cushy jobs. Ethics isn't in most of their vocabularies.

    Point taken. Any chance there are people of integrity willing to run next time? And, of course, any chance the plain people of Ireland will vote for them? How depressing.


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    #57
    Jesus Wept
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    Stereonick wrote: »
    Wasn't Steve Staunton getting €400,000? That kind of puts it in perspective. And Gerry Ryan must be getting more

    Wtf has Gerry Ryan got do with this?

    Tbh, the public sector are way over paid anyhow, it's a joke, it should of been addressed long ago. It costs €247k per year to keep a prisoner in Portlaoise Prison, a lot of that is down to the massive wages prison guards are on, not to say they don't work hard, it's exorbitant.
    ScumLord wrote: »
    We should start a petition!

    Bertie and ministers should not only refuse the raise but take, even a 5% pay cut as a show of good faith to the Irish public.

    Yea, great idea, a petition! That will get us far. :rolleyes::p
    biko wrote: »
    March in the streets

    That's more like it, but it won't happen, I'd turn up outside the dail tomorrow if I thought there would be good support, but there won't be.
    orestes wrote: »
    Revolution anybody?

    Join Teh Revolution


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    #58
    Zzippy
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    The-Rigger wrote: »
    Tbh, the public sector are way over paid anyhow, it's a joke, it should of been addressed long ago.

    Really? That's why teachers, nurses, civil servants, etc can't afford to buy a house... FFS, its only at the very top that these pay rises are happening, the rest of us aren't getting 30% pay increases I can assure you. That's why I'm paying nearly 50% of my net income on a mortgage...... way overpaid me bollix! :rolleyes:


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    #59
    dobsdave
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    I only came into this thread to see who this Berite guy was!
    Sorry, continue.:D


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    #60
    paconnors
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    Isn't there something we can do about this?

    Yep, Dont Vote
    2Scoops wrote: »
    Collectively, we had an opportunity to do something about this last summer. Wait a few years and we'll get another.


    Same thing will happen again,

    i dont think i'l ever bother voting again as we the joe public paying their wages thru our own hard work, its a load of bollix


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    #61
    Savman
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    I hate Berite.


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